CHR 585763 A – Geranium lucidum L.
Data provider:
Allan Herbarium
Barcode:
CHR 585763 A
Specimen type:
Sheet
Database record added:
09 December 2008
Database record updated:
09 December 2008
Components
Primary component
Active identification
Determined name:
Geranium lucidum L.
Determiner:
W.R Sykes
Identification date:
2003-12-08 (Verbatim: 8 Dec 2003)
Preferred name:
Geranium lucidum L.
Division:
Spermatophyta
Class:
Magnoliopsida
Order:
Geraniales
Family:
Geraniaceae
Identification type:
Determination
Collection events
Primary collection event
Collection event type:
Field
Standard locality
Location:
Prebbleton, Texture Plants Nursery
Verbatim locality:
Prebbleton, Texture Plants Nursery
Verbatim collector:
W.R. Sykes 144/03
Standardised collector:
William R. Sykes
Verbatim date:
5 Dec 2003
Start date:
2003-12-05
Land District:
Canterbury Land District
Country:
New Zealand
Habitat:
Weed in nursery.
Notes:
Wide sprawling herb with ± decumbent dark red or greenish stems, annual, not aromatic. Calyx with 6-8 transverse ribs on each of the 5 faces, 3-4 on each side of the raised midrib. Corolla 8-10 mm long; petal claws 5-6 mm long, narrow, white; limb of petals 3-4 mm long, pink, elliptic. Anthers & pollen yellow. Stigmas pinkish-orange. Mericarps 2.2-2.5 mm long, grey-brown, ridged and alveolate-rugose, minutely glandular-hairy on distal ridges and ventral face, otherwise glabrous. Seeds smooth. A few plants only at base of cultivated shrub. An accidental import in 1996-1997 from "Plant World Seeds", Newton Abbot, Devon, and has spontaneously grown freely ever since.
Specimen notes
Subsheet:
Sheets A to B
Duplicates
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